Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

- Taylor, Sid

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

11.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

20.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

21.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

22.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

25.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

26.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

27.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

28.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

29.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

30.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

34.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

44.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.